Dormancy

n.	1.	The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
	1.	The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. - Burke.
	2.	(Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; - distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.) a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; - called also sleeping partner or silent partner. Dormant window (Arch.) a dormer window. See Dormer. Table dormant a stationary table. - Chaucer.

Noun	1.	dormancy - a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency
	2.	dormancy - quiet and inactive restfulness Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping

a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, delitescence, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, doldrums, entropy, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, intermission, interruption, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, lotus-eating, lull, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, possibility, potentiality, procrastination, quiescence, quiescency, quietism, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, suspension, torpor, underactivity, vegetation, virtuality, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

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